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k' ',~,. „~.; a . t TH P. LONDON JOURNALS. DA I LX Bxgractsfrom the Morning Plmrs,lllarch 10, 1826 , [MORNINO HERALD.] Mr. Secretary'Peel last night obtained leave . - 10 . bring . in a Bill to consolidate, and simplify the .Statute Laws,- as far as the same regard theft, • - •'''etrabetzletnent, receiving stolen goods knowing ~ :thefattme to have been -stolen,Stc. The Bill will tooolltlate and simplify ninety-two Statutes on the tubjecrof theft, and simplify the offences by Alzsctibint them on general principles, instead of particularizing cases; it will remedy the law re ' 'OO4 embezzlement, by not requiring the coin or ~PRles.to be proved, &c.; it will make the receivers of stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, subject to indictment as for the theft ; it will reach 66 accessories after the fact ;" it will also remedy the evils of escapes on account of " vet'- - bal inaccuracies ;" and finally, in the language of Mr. Peel, besides consolidating and simplify ing. ninety-two Acts into one Act of thirty-two pages, it will " facilitate the conviction of guilt, end the acquittal of innocence." Mr. Peel said, " he had limited this Bill to the laws regarding theft, because an enormous majority of commit ments to prison are on charges of theft. In 1825, he . stated, 14,437 persons were charged with crimes; of that number, 12,530, or six•sevenths, were for theft. He therefore took the most important class, as far as numbers were concern ed." The exceedingly clear and luminous speech, the importance of the proposed Bill, and its successful compression,. were loudly cheered by the House ; and should Mr. Peel achieve this immense and incalculably useful work, of which there is not much doubt, he, will accomplish what Bacon 260 years ago proved to be wanted, but failed to effect ; and what the most po wer f u l minds afterwards, down to the time of Itomilly, attempted in vain. This is inik-d making a noble use of high office and commanding station. It is living for more valuable purposes than the mere patronage of place ; and such laudable am bition on the part of Mr. Peel will set useful ex ample to statesmen, while it makes due use o peace in promoting requisite internal reforms. [NEW Timus.l Not a Session passes in any Parliament, and scarcely a week in any Session, which does not • • witness some extension of the principles of en lightened freedom in our legislation. Last year the Jury Laws of England were consolidated and improved, under the superintendance of the Se cretary for the home Department ; nod this Ses sion. a Bill has been brought in by the President of the Board of Controul, to regulate the appoint. meth of Juries in the East Indies. By the Act of the 13th of the late King, it was provided, that all offreitces tried at Fort William should be tried by a jury of British s u bj ec t s res id ent in the town of Calcutta; The present statute ex tends the right and duty. of serving on juries to all good and sufficient perso ns res id ent w i t hi n the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and not subjects of any foreign state. A very wise and considerate part of the statute is, that which authorises the respective Courts of Judicature at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, from time to time, to establish such rules as they may deem expedient, with respect to the qualification, appointment, form of summoning, challenging, and service of the jurors. These rule, are of Course to he transmitted to England, for his Majesty's approbation, correction, or disal lowance ; but it is of great importance that the Judgeion the spot, who, front experience, know best the objects that are desirable and can be at tainett, should have a regular and official mmle of snittieSting the regulations which they think ad. visable. On great benefit which may be ex pert. ed to result from this act, is, the raising of the half castes in the scale of society. These per sons, the offspring of Earopean fathe rs and In. titan 'mothers,. now form a numerous class in Indiatt society ; and investing them with p o li t i ca l rights, ` ' and imposing en theta political duties, while It raises them in the scale of civilization, .`roilltdoisbtless render them better men, and more • Valuable Subjects. [MOANING, eIIitoNICLE.3 We yeiterday published a letter from a Solid• tor„ complaining. of the delay and injury occa sioned to Suitors by the Lord Chancellor's (milt ing to fill up the vacant Masterships, Our Cm rehpoodent asks to what this delay is to be attli tinted, and suggests that the Lord of the Wool. back should retire, if he cannot make up his mind whom to appoint to the vacant offices. We be lieve. that the cause of the delay is perfectly well understood, and that the supposed difficulty of making an election has nothing whatever to do with it. The Chancery Report is just about to make its appearance, and the Chancellor natu rally desires as much support us he can Com , mand i r though he has really nothing to apprehend team a Report made by a Committee of his own 4oirstment„ and drawn up, we may say, under his own eye. Rut still a prudent man. like the , Crintncellor, loves to draw all his friends round him when an occasion for hostilities presents itself. There are at this moment about a dozen Candidates for the vacant Masterships, all of horn, in the characters of expectnnts, must ex ".reedingly revere the Chancellor, and admire and opprove the system, into the sweets of which they dtsiie to enter. Now, while the good things are ' itt the Chancellor's gift, all these gentlemen, and friends„ relations, and political connections, ore the Chancellor's warm friends and stre. diCRIS supporters; but when the two good things ch sweeten a dozen expectants and their allies "Kie given away, ten influential petsons, with their 'resPeetiie weil.wishers, are disappointed,' and Ityrri sotir and radical on the instant. This VII/ be avoided, and therefore, at this pre. 4 ,,h t conjuncture, the Lord Chancellor disap. v oi n t i n o one by disposing of the vacant Mas. 'ilithhips, but, 00 the contrary, he SeCurPS the best 11ip4ort or many, by the exPectotroo of bend ts to nthe, w hi c h he keeps alive.: The Chancellor '"rot do better than hold up the vacant offices ue'the r ewar di opth e ,ro v st zealous Of) ; the occa-„, ,• • sion of the publicattotHif _the Chancery Repott Such a stimulus woul d work wonders—but we are probably suggesting that' ,which has already been understood. rTiIE TIMES. .1 Mr. Peel, it will he seen by our Parliamentary Report, indicated his intention to simplify and consolidate the laws against theft. The attempt is worthy of him, and we cordially wish him suc cess. Never did greater confusion exist in the criminal law of any country generally than in that of Great Britain. Throughout the whole code, the quantity of punishment is meted out, not by the criminal intentions of the offender, but by circumstances over which he has no controul, and which cat►not, therefore, either aggravate or palliate his guilt as—whether the value of the property stolen were thirty-nine or 40 shillings, the thief being ready to take all that came within Iris reach; whether he stole ',privately or pub licly ; whether day had broke, or darkness still lingered,though the depredator had been in search of his prey all night. If M. Peel succeeds in his present project, he may then extend his at tention to the offencie of poaching, the offenders under which head throng our prisons. Poaching is the great demoralizer of the British plains.' No schools have ever imparted so much goodness there to children, as poaching tins taught vice to the adult yet the incitements of poaching still continue unabated, if, indeed, they are not in creased. Others have failed in their attempts to reduce this evil ; but If Mr. Peel arrive at the happy termination of his present efforts, success will inspire courage, and practice will teach' adroitness. We shall not despair of seeing a law enacted under his management, by which poach ing may lose its attraction's as a seductive vice, and its gain as a lucrative trade. [MORNING POST.] In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Se. cretary Peel introduced his Bill for the Consoli• dation of the Criminal Laws by a most luminous and admirable Speech, which will be read with deep interest and attention. The measure has the double purpose in view of consolidating into one statute not only the whole of the laws relat ing to thefts, but those also affecting accessories, and other offenders—amounting altogether to no less than 9'2 statutes, every material enactment of which will be embraced within thirty-two pages! What an Herculean task ! What a wonderful and inestimable accomplishment! All evasions of the true spirit of the law, through technical informalities, by which the must atrocious ruffians may escap e unpunished, are to be guarded against with due care, in every respect ; and in order that villainy shall not escape the just chastisement of the law from the dread of the expense hitherto attendant upon prosecutions of criminals, power is to be vested in the Court to grant in such cases the full expellees of the pro. secutors. Such are only a few of the admirable features of the proposed Consolidated Statute, and the Public will be happy to hear that there is no likelihood of any obstacle being presented to the accomplishment of so truly excellent and laud able a measure, as it has already received the sanction of all the great luminaries of the Law, to whose sound and mature judgment the Right llon.Secretary has taken the judicious precaution of su bruiting it. Leave was given to bring in the Bill, and the Mover sat down amidst the loud and warm cheering of the whole House. [IIIIITISH PR ESS. I We earnestly hope that the statement made by Mr. 'Whitlow at the public dinner of the Sub scribers to the Institution for the Cure of Scro. Fula and Glandular Diseases, an account of which was given in the British Press of yesterday, will not be suffered to pass without the fullest inves tigation. Mr, Whitlow is an American, and the efficacy of his mode of treatment in 'the above complaints, unhappily so prevalent iu this country, led to the formation of the above Society, most humanely established at Bays. water for the procuring for this class of sufferers the benefit of the mode of remedy which he had introduced with so much success. That he should have experienced the illiberal opposition from the medical faculty in England, which he so publicly complained of at the meeting, is a sub ject which will excite more of regret than sur. prise in all who are familiar with our annals of medical science. But leaving the College of Physicians to their own exculpation from the charge of illiberality, the fact in which the pub lic are deeply interested is that which Mr. Whitley, deliberately stated to have taken place in Marylebone Workhouse, where some chil dren having been placed under his care, just us he had effect e d th e i r cure, the Nurse applied corrosive sublimate and red percipitate to the wounds ; and that the medicines which he had applied being powerful absorbents, the absorbent vessels being in a preternatural state of activity, caused these mercurial preparations to be taken into the system. " The consequence of which,." c cMr. Whitlaw said, was, that the children, be sides having their flesh corroded to the bone,l were near losing their lives also, and would have done so but for his assistance." This is a charge of a most appalling nature, and the public will not be satisfied if the justice of the accusation is not fully inquired into. Mr. Jodrael, of Portland-place, upon Mr. Whitlaw's alledging that inquiry had already been refused, intimated his determination to examine into the case. This we hope be will do, and that the result of the in. vestigation will be laid before the Public. The Physicians who attend the Marylebone Work. house, on their part, are bound, in justice to themselves, to redeem their character from the imputation which so grave a charge involves, as the nurse must be presumed to have acted not only with their Concurrence, but under their di t . reetion. The inquiry, we hope, will be instituted without delay, as the sooner the affair is cleared up the better. [rifE !tEPRESENTATIVE.] In the Lords, htst night, two very important questions were incidental!), introduced, and gave rise to tiOttle debate, or rather'iOnte declaration..of opinion. Lord Damloy agitated the Roman Ca tholic question, Lord King that of the Corn Laws. Some things of little value in themselves are worthy of attention from their consequences. We, therefore, feel grateful to Lord Darnley for his speech ; for it produced from Lord Liverpool the declaration that hedid not shrink from his prin ciples, and would be ready at all times to main tain them. Lord Darnley declared he did not wish that the question should be discussed in this Session. in the discussion on the Corn Laws, there was nothing of interest. Their Lordships declined entering into the merits of the question, deferring that till a more fitting opportunity, in which we shall follow their example. Mr. Peel, last night, in the House of Commons, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate the Statute Laws on the subject of the crime of theft. The number of cases of theft, he said, was two thirds of the whole amount of criminal charges, and there were no less than ninety. two Acts relating to it in the statute books, many of them obscure, inconsistent, and mixed up with matter to which they had no relation. The Right Hon. Gentleman then en tered into a learned and elaborate detail, to skew the necessity of simplifying the law on the sub ject, and to consolidate all these scattered rnem bers into one statute. The laws respecting re ceivers of stolen goods amounted to twelve, and these he should supersede by a single clause. On the Lord Advocate's motion, for leave to bring in a Bill, to regulate the navigation of steam-boats in Scotlanti, Mr. Canning gave his assent, lest, as he said, refusal might swell the catalogue of griev ances, of which Scotland complained in a recent publication—meaning, no doubt the letters of Malachi Malagrotelher. [THE ritinuc LEDGEIII Wt. have received the Paris I'apers of Tuesday and the Mode of Wednesday, but their contents are unimportant. The latter contains a letter from Trieste, dated the 22d ult., which claims considerable advantages for the Greeks. They have gained, it is said, a naval victory off Miss°. longhi, by which they have been enabled to sup ply the wants of the brave garrison of that place. Three Turkish frigates were destroyed in the ac. lion, and the Captain Paella, to save the rest of his fleet, was obliged to seek protection under the guns of Patras. Though the place, where the engagement took place, is described minutely enough, the date is omitted ; and this omission, we are sorry to say, involves the whole statement in doubt. At the same time all intelligence in favour of the Greeks, coming from Trieste, must he received with extreme caution ; for, if they had only gained a tenth part of the successes, for which they obtained credit in various com munications from (hat place, there would not be the fresh trace of an enemy's footstep at this time in all Greece. The Papers confirm the account we exclusively gave on Wednesday, of the recut of the French Ambassador from Constantinople, but without assigning any reason for it. The cause which our informant nt Constantinople gives, may be the ostensible one, though it strikes us that it is not the real motive. His evidence in Ouv rard's case may be deemed very essential ; and we suspect that the French Government was happy to have this decent pretext for ordering him home, as negociations may be soon opened in the Turkish capital, in kt hich the French Ca- binet, though pledged to concur with the other Great Powers, does not wish to take a conspicuous part. The Minister of his Most Christian Majesty have taken great pains of late to conciliate the good-will of the Porte ; and all his pains -taking 'night be thrown away, were France, by her Am bassador, to Insist on the acceptance by that Power of such conditions, as would, without se. curing the absolute independence of Greece, el fectuully curb Turkish violence and exactions.— Though the French Government may cordially co-operate to procure some s uc h arrangement, as wehnvejustpointed out, it may wish at the same time to maintain its present friendly footing at the Porte; and by withdrawing its Ambassador, and leaving only a Charge d'Affaires in his place, it probably hopes to gnin both objects at the same time. French diplomacy is so tortuous, that our supposition has the merit at least of consistency ; end we repeat it as our opinion, that the affair of Ouvrard is only a decent pretext for recalling Count Guilleminot from his post at this eventful moment. These Papers give a melancholy sketch of the commercial distress prevailing at this thus in several parts of Germany ; and we have taken from a German Paper, which arrived yesterday, an article, which paints the same subject in the most gloomy colours. Let us hope, however, that we shall soon receive more favourable ac. counts from that quarter ; and we are justified in this opinion by the certain signs of reviving confidence that are exhibited in our own market. As our embarrassments have given rise to th e difficulties by which the German dealer is.so sorely hampered at this moment, so the latter will soon participate in our returning prosperity. There are already the clearest indications of provement in almost every part of the country ; and the progressi ve r i se w hi c h is t a ki ng place in funded prop ert y, i s on l y a faithful pi cture of what is going on i n every ot h er transaction of trade. Th e Funds ate so correct a baromet er o f the state of p u bli c cre di t generally) that it sp ews at once how every other interest stands; and, besides this criterion of the decidly-favourable turn which trade, in almost all its branches, has taken within these few days, the opinions of tile most intelligent commercial men agree with our opinion. Besides the authoritative tes. limony of such men as Mr. Baring, we can state a single fact, which attests it in the most trium. Phant manner. It was no later than yesterday that we learned from an eminent ship-owner, that he has made more shipments in this and the !wt week than he had made in tile two previous mouths. Here is a decided change for the better ; and having afterwards put the ques flan to other respectable persons in the stunt. fin e , the reply we received was equally cheering. a O u f ct l io l i r : 111;tY;lEr: P w 141 The t o c r for l°rberd4 7 l 1 2 : O sd g ad ti r i 8 : 9 : i s ir 1 . 14 cba; MR. J EFFERSON. ' (Pr Oin the Aress , York Commercial gaily Advertiser.) ,We have4ead with emotion; ol of deep concern, the follow,ipg remarks in the last Richmond Whig, together with the proceedings of the Vir ginia Legislature ) to which they allude " Mr. JEFFERSON.—The reader will discover (we are persuaded with more concern than sur. prise), that Mr. Jefferson, in the extremity of his age, is reduced to the verge of insolvency, and that he has thrown himself upon the justice of his country to be allowed the privilege of obtaining a fair value for his estates by means of a lottery. Leave has been given to bring in a Bill for that purpose, and we trust there is little or no doubt, but that this 4 poor boon' to a man who has done so much for his country and the world, will be granted by the state that has received the richest fruits of his immortal labours. Why, indeed, should it not be granted to him ? When the gratitude of the state voted thousands to Gen. ‘Vashington— when the gratitude of the country has elevated the fortunes of Layfayette to a princely standard, and is protecting every citizen from want, who carried a musket in the Revolution, why should it be cold to the claims of Mr. Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the great fountain of light which has conduct ed the ri g hts of man to general respect, and our political institutions to their present perfection ? Where is the danger of this precedent ? The character and services of the petiticiner render it almost impossible that the precedent can be drawn into abuse ; and happy would it be for the country, if applications founded upon such claims should become frequent. His character and his services exclude the operation of the precedent— for a precedent can only be embraced by cases resting on similar circumstances. Can it be therefore pretended, that if Mr. Jefferson is au thorised so dispose of his estate by lottery, it will bind future Legislatures to extend an indis criminate indulgence to all desiring a similar favour ? As it relates to Mr. Jefferson, the pro posed lottery is stripped of one of the objec tionable features of lotteries. Ile does not desire to receive more by it than the value of his estate, estimated by disinterested gentlemen. lie has no view of speculation—and wishes only to re lieve himself of debt, and to preserve a small shure of his estate, that he may have a home for the short remainder of his life. Such is our faith in him that we do not believe he would ask what his country ought not to grant. Well understood ns it is, that nothing could Induce him to re ceive a pecuniary compensation for his inesti mable services, that he abhors the very sound of ' civil pension' —apparent as it is that this is the only favour that he ever asked, or ever will ask of his country, we trust it will be granted him." BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. The following is an Abstract of the BM for the better discovery and suppression of Bribery end corrupt Practices in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament : Clause I.—Whenever a petition shall be presented, alleging general Bribery or Corruption, within six years, in the election or return •f Members for any place, and it shall appear to the House, that it contains matter requiring further investigation, a day and hour to be appointed for taking it into consideration, so that two days intervene between the day of presenting it and the day appointed to take it into consideration I notice of such day and hour to be, by order of the Speaker, inserted in one of the two next London Gaiettes, and to be sent by him to the returning Officer of the place the petition relates to, and the returning; Officer to affix a copy of s uc h not i ce to the door of the rown HAI or Parish Church nearest the place of Election. the hour appointed for taking the Petition into con. sidcratior', the House to appoint a select Co mm i ttee to inquire Into the matters contained in in, and report the result of their inquiry ; such Committee to con s i st of the Memb er presenting the petiton and Waco' others, to be chosen by lot, PI (turd n g to the regulations and subject to the exemptions for choosing forty nine Members by lot, contained in the recited acts, and to be sworn to try the matter, and report their opinion, with the evidence, to the house. Il I.—Persons, before the day appointed to consider the pe tition, petitioning to be admitted as parties to oppose it, to be allowed to appear before the Committee by themselves, their Counsel or Agents. IV.—All the rules, regulations, authorities, powers and me thods of proceeding prescribed and given by the recited Acts to Select Committees for the trial of controverted elections or re turns, to be in force with respect to select Committees appointed by virtue of this Act. V.—Costs of such inquiries to be defrayed in the same num• ner as the costs of prosecutions directed by the House. Vl.—Act, or any thing to be done in pursuance of it, not to affect the election or return of any Member, nor to affixt the re cited Acts or any other Acts now in force, for regulating the trials of controverted elections and returns. Yesterday morning, soon after two o'clock, the driver of the hackney-couch, No. 901, had set down his returning fare in Marsham-street,West minster, when lie proceeded to the horse-ferry, at 'thank, for the purpose of washing and wa tering his horses. The carriage and horses, of which the latter were valuable, both belonged to Mr. Russell, the coach-muster, in Vauxhall. road. Knowing that the tide was rising fast, Lee, one of the watchmen, felt ►t ►teces•ary to caution Wade, the driver, of the danger he ran, but %%rade not being quite himself, still treated the watchman's warning with contempt. He pro ceeded at once into the river, when himself and coach and horses were borne away by the in creasing tide ; but the piteous cries uttered by the driver brought the watchman back, who, assisted by a bargeman, was so fortunate as to succeed in saving Wade himself from a watery grave. Carriage and horses were, however, soon carried by the current as far as Vauxhall-bridge, where, at length, the coach filled with water. Drags were procured on the spot. After an effort of nearly two hours, the horses were found drowned quite under the coach, and even the latter was much damaged. In the parish church of St. Mary Northgate, in • Canterbury, on Sunday last, t h e ltev. Vicar pub. lisped the bans of marriage between two couple for the third time, in the usual manner, after thes e. cond lesson, and immediately after the parties (two P 4 °ldlers belonging t-o the First Dragoon Guard., recently stationed in this city, with two young women) presented themselves at the altar, and were accordingly unized in the silken bawls of wedlock amidst th e bl us h es an d sigbings of many young and antiquati.d maidens then present at this unexpected ceremony.—(lient Herald.) EXTRAORDINA kV ELEPHANTS, The following copy of an official letter (rani an officer commanding the Ramghur battalion lu Bengal, to the magistrate of the division, was published in the newspapers in 1817. The date of the letter, however, is April 10, 1810. The republication of it at this moment may not be considered uninteresting : " I have the honour to state to you, that on the 24th instant, a t midni g ht, I rece iv e d informa- Lion, that two elephants of an uncommon size had made theiv appearance within a few hundred yards of the cantonments, and close to a village, the inhabitants of which were in the greatest' alarm. I lost no time in dispatching all the public" and private elephants of the station in pursuit of them, and at day-break of the (-25th was informs ed, that their very superior size, and apparent fierceness, had rendered all attempts for their seizure unavailing, and that the most expe rienced driver was dangerously wounded, the elephant on which he rode having been struck to the ground by one of the wild ones, which, with its companion, had afterwards retreated to a sugar plantation l adjoining the village of Jusipoar: I immediately ordered out the guns of this place but very desirous, in the first instance, to try every means of catching them, I assembled the inhabitants of this neighbourhood, with the assis‘ tance of Rajah Ragnnut Sing, and caused two deep pits to be prepared on the edge of the stigat cane plantation, in which our elephants and. Imo' ple, with the utmost difficulty, contrived to retain these animals during the day, When the 019 • were reported ready, we repaired to the spot, and they were, with much difficulty, driven /Mb them, but unfortunately, one of the pits did` nOt prove sufficiently deep, and the elephant that escaped from it (i n t h e p resence o f man y witnesses) assisted his comp an i on ou t w i t h hi s trunk ; both were, however, b roug ht b ac k w ith mu ch trouble to the sugar cane pl an t a ti on; an d no particular in , stance of vice or fierceness having appeared in the course of the day, I was anxious to make another trial to catch them. The pioneers,therefore, set to work to deepen the old, and prepare new holes, against day-break, when I proposed making the final attempt. A t 4 o ' c l oc k o f t h e morn ing, yester day, howev er , th e y burst through all my guard s, and makin g f or a v ill age t h ree m il es di s tant, en tered with so muc h rap idi ty, t h at t h e horsemen% who galloped i n f ront o f t h en), h a d no t time to apprise the inhabitants of their danger; and 1 . 1. 1: from limb, a c hild tro dd en to d eat h gret to say, th a t one poor man was torn lun ,and two wo• men wounded. Their destruction was now bei come absolutely necessary , an d, as t h e y appearet to show no inclination to quit the village/ we gained time to bring up the four-pounders, from, abundance of grap e eac h ; which they s oon rece i ve d several roun d s h o t, sou the largest of th e t wO was even brought to tth. ground by a round s hot in the head, but aft er rema i n i ng t h ere a tiner: ter of an hour, a pp arent l y l if eless , he go' up as vigoro u s as ev er , an d the d es p e ration of both excee d e d a ll d escr i ption t h e y made repeat e d c h arges w i t hi n nearly one h u ndred yards of th e guns , an d h a d i t not been fo r the Sr; the unco mmon s t ea di ness and b ravery of tillerym en ( w h o more t h an once turned t h e m 00' by shot in the head wh en w i t hi n a f ew yards of them), many casua l t i es must have happened. W e Were oow obliged to desist for want of mai" d be obtained, the elephants quitted the cow tion and shot ; an d b e f ore a fresh supp ly Dud, though str eam i ng w i t h bl oo d f rom h u ndred wounds, proc ee d e d, w i t h a rap idi t y of • w hich I had no idea, to Hazarabang. They were at length brought up by th e h orsem en and our ele• phants, when within a ver y s hort space o f 11 crowder (bazaar), an d u l t i mate ly, village, after many re newa Is of the most f orm id a bl e attac ks on the gull s, they gave up th e con t es t w i t h t h e i r lives, Nine teen four-pound s h ot have already been t aken out of their bodi e s, an d I i mag i ne that eight or ten more will b e f oun d. I h ave been thu s particular, both b ecause I t hi n k t h e t ra nsaction worthy of being ecorded and also from a hop e , that you will concur wi t h me i n t h e pro priety . ° f an application to governm e nt for a compensation - for the damage sutrered by the owners of th e villages of Jusipoor and Ored, from the destruci. tion of much grain, &c. I enclose a correct urea' surement of one of the elephants which will be rend with surpise. I am of opinion they r ou st here escaped from liydrz)bad, or some part of the Decent), for I have never heard of or seen animals of this size in this part of India. I have the honour to be, E. R., Captain, Commanding the Rantithur Battalion' Hazarbaug, 29th Sept. 1810. Ft. I „",_` Length, from the e nd o f t h e trunk to the end of the tall " 0 Height . . 8 H 17 !found the body . 0 Length, from the crown of the head to beneath the The other Elephant rather smaller.' 13 t RTUS. On Thursday, 31N. G. Battye, of Camden Xem in g ton of a son. Yebterday, Mrs. iVillirun Holt, irea Tl eedle.stree t, a daughter. AIARRIED. s. ..clor' ls ` On Monday, the 6th inst., at the British Arn" -- of 8i ,11 ,. Chapel, Paris, Richard Laming, Esq , surgeon, I n g . ; n : t g e ,i s ir tr o a t r ee . i i e o w u n i f t e c:h g i a n u tie l l t g o e u t A a i i r ß i :rly Su Tip n t lW . f .M . e , o l f ti t ie h r a ie t t e i a r t ..... l . 41 : ti llelP :d s e On the 9th inst., William Dickinson E ,of C r " — fon flornse Yl to Eleanor, daughter of the late * George Dior -- e ---,-." At his hou se , West Hors p le l y E li p la . ce, Surrey, Wa l l Perkin" Weston, Esq. a ge d 77. John nn T th h e o ld p i s n o s n t , . ; l l l . e A n . ry, i4 S ri l l a lc u r g il l:ter, I' Furze' l l e, B 4im ev : lately, whilst on a visit at London, '' in ag hls 74th year, At G..irscroft, near Springkell, Scotland, on bridge. He was forty years vicar o o f f S E t i . qi . : l (m °h , ll l . ;u C titl i n l if deean' t-? ' ' ' ' l l . l t r h e ; and nearly tlity years master of Kittibolton grammar-se") 2d of February, John Johnson, aged 92. fie vice o h e the Springkell family upwirds of 70 Year s a g ° ,,i.:o)( si.ice has been unable to work, he has receieed„a alLowance, and free house, from Sir John H. Maxwe". g geil Maxwell and the young ladies used frequently to visit Sha - to y c)uple, in their humble dwellirm and supply atm withP( t ora comforts. He has been marrieu ti 7 years, and his p artne joblet years older than he was) still survives him. -It is mile firs , t.iat though they have lived so long together, this is tune that death has entered their dialing. Their 4",4-hl dren still survive them • and he has left children , gul l " dren, and gteat.grand.Children, to the number of 12u e'netlentrarsidtaiYi; sturci a Printed anti i'abli.lheti fox the PitoritiE ToiiS t at uti„ _ t/ ,: rklcr„ N o . 112, *trend, by. J. .1.1.1.41•0,4"-•